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MR. C. E. HELLMAYR ON TUE 



Nos. 2108, 2419. c? 6 ad. Sipi : 23.ix. ; Novita: 20.xii.08.— 

 Wing 147, 150 ; tail 250, 255 ; bill 45, 47 mm. 



No. 2013. 2 *^cl. Noanama: 25.viii.08.— Wing 148 ; tail 250 ; 

 bill 46 mm. 



" Iris dark brown, feet and bill black." 



All three specimens have the median rectrices spatulated and 

 decidedly bluish. Cf'r. also my remarks in Abhandl. Bayer. 

 Akad. Wiss., II. CI. vol. xxii. 3, 1906, p. 611, and in Nov. Zool. 

 xiv. 1907, p. 403. 



U. martii seviirufa replaces the typical race in Western 

 Ecuador and Colombia, ranging northwards to Costa Rica and 

 Nicaragua. 



165. MOMOTUS ^QUATORIAUS iEQUATORIALIS Gould. 



Mom&tus cequatorialis Gould, P. Z. S. 1857, p. 223 (Jan. 1858.— 

 " Archidona, near the Equatorial line, on a branch of the Ilio 

 Napo"); Sclater & Salvin, P. Z.S. 1879, p. 534 (Envigado, 

 Retiix>, Concordia^ Frontino). 



No. 2820. iS :id. Pueblo Rico, 5200 ft., 29.X.09.— Wing 154 ; 

 tail 315 ; bill 42^ mm. 



" Ii-is vermilion, feet dark grey, bill black." 



We have also a fine pair procured by the late J. H. Batty 

 at Rio lima, 4500 feet. Western Cordillera, in August 1898. 

 The Colombian skins agree exactly with others from Ambato, 

 E. Ecuador, which can be regarded as topotypical. 



A£. cequatorialis is an inhabitant of the highlands of Ecuador 

 and Western Colombia. It may prove to be merely the southern 

 form of the Central American M. lessoui Less. In Peru it is 

 I'eplaced by a nearly allied race, M. cequatorialis chlorolcemus 

 Berl. & Stolzm.*. 



166. Galbula melanogenia Scl. 



Galbida melanogenia Sclater, Contrib, to Ornith. for 1852 p. 61 

 (1852— loc. ign.). 



G. ntficauda (nee Cuvier) Cassin, Proc. Acad. N. Sci. Philad. 

 1860, p. 134 (River Nercua). 



Nos. 2219, 2513. S 6 ad. Rio Cajon, 125 ft., 29.X.08 ; 

 El Tigre, 320 ft., 5.ii.09.— Wing 79, 82 ; tail 93, 94 ; bill 47 mm. 



Nos. 2220, 2567. $ $ ad. Rio Cajon : 29.X.08 ; Juntas, 

 400 ft., ll.iii.09.— Wing 79, 81 ; tail 93 ; bill 44 mm. 



" Iris dark brown, feet yellowish green, bill black." 



The specimens are identical with others from Chiriqui and 

 Western Ecuador, 



167. Bucco PECTORALis Gray. 



Bucco pectoralis Gray, Genera Birds, i. pi. xxvi. (Dec. 1846— 

 no locality given); Wyatt, Ibis, 1871, p. 374 (Magdalena Valley, 

 between Naranjo and the river) ; Sclater it Salvin, P. Z. S. 1879, 



* P. Z. S. 1902, ii. p. 35 (1902.— Ocobamba near Cuzco, S.E. Peru). 



